毕竟 bìjìng▶ after all

HSK 5HSK 3.0 · Level 5

Traditional

畢竟

HSK 5 — advanced proficiency: 1,300 new words, 2,500 in all. You can read newspapers, enjoy films and give speeches in Chinese. In HSK 3.0, 毕竟 is in band 5. HSK 5 explained

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中毕竟means after all. You'd say it when a friend is upset that a child made a mess, and you gently say, well, they're only a kid, after all. Say it with me.

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Stroke order

毕竟 is written in 17 strokes across 2 characters.

• 毕 — 6 strokes
• 竟 — 11 strokes

Senses

1. after all
2. all in all
3. when all is said and done
4. in the final analysis

Characters in 毕竟

• 毕 bì — the whole of; to finish; to complete
• 竟 jìng — unexpectedly; actually; to go so far as to

Character meanings from CC-CEDICT (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Related words

• 完毕to complete, finish
• 毕业to graduate; graduation
• 究竟exactly
• 竟然unexpectedly

毕竟 is pronounced bìjìng and means “after all”.